What should Manu do?

I was reading my internet feeds today and…”the Spurs are hiring a former Olympic Gold medalist and NBA Champion as an assistant coach”…Fabricio Oberto. My God, I thought, they hired the wrong Argentinian. I read further. Fabricio’s role would be at the “far end” of the Spurs bench. Thank goodness, the seat next to Pop should be Manu’s.

I think we all know that Manu performs much better as a starter than a bench player, much less a small-minutes bench player, but those days are gone. Everyone want to bring Manu back for his basketball IQ alone. What’s the better return on investment, getting 15 minutes of Manu’s basketball IQ every game or getting 12 hours a day as Pop’s top assistant?

Since Jerry Colangelo won’t let Pop coach the USA Basketball team, wouldn’t if be karma for Pop to prepare the coach who could beat USA Basketball?